Joe Scarborough, on GOP reaction to Chicago losing its Olympic bid: “Republicans have gone off the deep end.” Watch.

Of the 28 Democratic governors, only 22 signed a letter to the Democratic congressional leadership pushing for health care reform. Who are the six holdouts?

Betsy McCaughey, who has to rank as the Typhoid Mary of health care bamboozlement, debated Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) in New York. And we had a crack team of multimedia TPM news ninjas on the scene. We’ll bring you their report tomorrow.

Over the weekend the Times published an article with data suggesting that ordinary Europeans, unlike many of their political and cultural elites, don’t think too differently about the Polanski affair than most people in the United States.

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I just got a note from TPM Reader DC who says Karl Rove got his account on Twitter (twitter.com/karlrove) suspended. And sure enough it’s true. Click here to see.

At first I thought, wait, this must have been a phony Rove Twitter account that finally got shut down because they found out it was by an impostor. But I checked our own GOP Twitter Room and that’s the account we had for him too. And if that’s not enough, I checked Rove’s official site. And that’s the one he lists there. You can click right through and be taken to the suspended account page. So I think it’s got to be legit.

What was the cause? Toxic bamboozlement? Clinical shame deficit after giving us the Bush presidency? Truth be told, I have to assume this means his account got hacked or something. But, who knows? And fun headline nonetheless.

I’ll be curious to find out what happened here.

Late Update: And it’s back. With no apparent explanation. But it’s back. Seems to have been down for an hour or so. Or at least that’s the length of time since we’d heard about it.

The DNC is launching a new national ad campaign in support of health care reform. See our write up and the video here.

The new Fairleigh Dickinson University poll out this morning has Corzine up over Chris Christie by one point.

Remember that American Police Force deal to run that jail in Hardin, MT? Turns out people weren’t totally paranoid. In addition running the jail, the contract included provisions giving APF the right to take over law enforcement functions in the town. That would have been fun. And now the town leaders have decided to put the whole deal on ice.

Gen. David Petraeus has revealed he was treated for prostate cancer earlier this year. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.

Former Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN) is back for a second day of walking back his initial, tentative support of President Obama’s health care reform.